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Show to list all of the developing businesses-but many here listed are still in existence, even though with different names A Consolidated Furniture Store was opened in 1895, and a Consolidated Wagon and Machine Company started in business later. The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad came to Mt. Pleasant in 1890 and the Mt. Pleasant Electric Light Company filed articles of Incorporation in May 1893. Then in 1901 the Mountain States Telephone and Telegraph Company began operating in the growing town. During 1908, the Progress Mercantile Company was incorporated and John K bought stock in the new venture. To him and his family the Progress represented the ultimate in merchandising marts. H. C. Jacobs managed the store and was also a stockholder. The Sanpete County Co-op had been established earlier but it made history early in this century when it hired its first female clerk, or saleslady, (no name listed or known) In 1912 the Golden Rule Store-Plater known as the J.C Penney Company-began business in the Gunderson block on west Main, and several years later moved one block east on the same street. The year 1912 saw the opening of a new theatre, the Elite, on State and First South. Until that time a very small old building had served as a cinema where movies were shown only once a week. So the larger more modern theatre 98 |